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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: runequester on May 18, 2010, 06:26:53 AM
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so what do people actually do with their amigas these days?
Whether its a classic machine, a pimped out hybrid beast, a PPC amiga, AROS or just some UAE for a rainy day
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I use it as shade cloth for various molds and dustmites.
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My son is doing 2d animation with DPaint and Brilliance. I do a bit of rendering in Winuae with Cinema 4D and lightwave 5. Just for fun
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so what do people actually do with their amigas these days?
I code MorphOS on my Pegasos 2 G4. I also test it with two Mac Mini G4 and PowerBook G4.
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I use two A1200s, one with Blizzard 1230IV and one with Blizzard 1260, to test and run packages for Gentoo/m68k, along with a Mac Quadra 610 and Aranym. I use my A3000/CSPPC/CVPPC to peek at OS4.0 and MorphOS 1.4.5. For messing around and playing games I have A1200/Blizzard 1260+Indivision AGA, CD32/SX32Pro, A600/Apollo630, A4000/CS060/Mediator, A500 and various spare A1200 motherboards. I also have a disassembled A4000T that lacks tower. And Pegasos1 and MacMini for toying around with MorphOS 2.x. And MiniMig ofcourse, games, Term and DPaint 4.1! :)
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I'm using my A3000D with STARTREKKER + 8 MIDI channels + KORG MR3 + KORG 01W. I make test of OKTAGON 2008 + Zip memory.
I try to make a project: a card with more than 2 PAULA sound chip on AMIGA (project started with Exolon/FAIRLIGHT).
I've time and I would like to make development on OS4.x but I can't: I need a cheap CSPPC.
I play with my A600 and I'm waiting my ZORRO Adapter to put an OKTAGON 2008 or an A2058 on my old A500!
I'm also trying to put an external keyboard on my A1200 with an adapter but don't works for the moment. I'm trying to install an internal CDROM on my A1200. I must found some minutes to change caps on my second A2000. I must found some minutes to repair a MEGICHIP (NTSC model) and make test on my A2000 PAL. I must find others minutes to install new battery on my 2x A3000 and 1x A2000. I must find time to change crytal oscillator (70Mhz) of my PPS040 MERCURY@35Mhz by a 80MHz and make some test.
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Porn.
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With my Amigas I watch movies with subtitles, surf the web, check e-mails, program games and utilities, play games, upload my website and do the design, publish solutions for puzzle games, do image processing, calculate spreadsheets, draw pixel graphics, listen to music and many more computer tasks...too many to list them all here.
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With my Amigas I watch movies with subtitles, surf the web, check e-mails, program games and utilities, play games, upload my website and do the design, publish solutions for puzzle games, do image processing, calculate spreadsheets, draw pixel graphics, listen to music and many more computer tasks...too many to list them all here.
what are your amigas specs, if you dont mind me asking ?
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Play games, whatch demos, paint in DPIV, render stuff with Real3D, mocking around with the OS itself. Try out new hardware, listening to music (mod and sid).
I haven't got a network card installed at the moment, but I intend to connect it to the Internet aswell to be able to download stuff from Aminet, to surf the web and use it for e-mail.
Funny thing is that the Amiga feels so fun to use even to this day. I have an iMac 24" too, and while it's a great computer, the Amiga is pure fun! :D
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so what do people actually do with their amigas these days?
Whether its a classic machine, a pimped out hybrid beast, a PPC amiga, AROS or just some UAE for a rainy day
At home I use my Amiga4000 with CyberstormPPC (128 mB), Mediator PCI busboard with Voodoo4, Terratec 512i digital and 10/100 mBit NIC as my main machine with OS 3.9/WarpOS 16.1.
I also have an experimental OS4.0 classic installation on it, but as OS4classic doesn't support all of my hardware components, OS 3.9 is my main system.
Aside from mailing and surfing the web I use it for digitising my vinyl record collection and converting it to mp3; for scanning, image processing and archiving all my old photos; for working on the preservation of the Wiehl Valley Railway (http://www.wiehltalbahn.de/).
Furthermore I'm in the process of starting a project to make a live steam model locomotive in H0 scale and will do the mechanic design in 3d on the Amiga with DynaCADD. Furthermore I'm planning to use the Miggy for the CNC production of the designed parts. Should I decide to make the controlling hardware myself, I internd to use NewIO and LogicWorks to do the schematics and PCB layout (if its not too complex).
And if I happen to be in the rare situation where I cannot get a task done on the Amiga, I switch on the XP-PC below my desk, connect my Miggy via RDesktop to it and remote-controll the XP-PC from the Miggy to get the task done.
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what are your amigas specs, if you dont mind me asking ?
I mainly use the microA1, 256MB RAM and PCI network card, with AmigaOS 4.1 (http://www.hirudov.com/amiga/AmigaOS41Update1.php). Recently, I installed Update 2, but did not have the time to test what's new.
I also have Amiga 1000, A1200, A500, but they are used rarely. For the A1200 and A500 I am not sure if they still work.
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I do all kinds of stuff with my A1, but the most common are E-Mail (simplemail), programming (with codebench), and music making (hivelytracker).
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I have primarily been using mine for Musick (if you want to call it that).
I'm working on upgrading my A600, and am awaiting parts of my 1200 upgrades.
I have been using OctaMED Sound Studio with a MIDI interface.
Before too long I will be controlling my Atari 2600 via the MIDI, at least that is the plan. We'll see how it all works out in the end when my 2600 MIDI adapter arrives.
Aside of that I use it for games, writing, and IRC.
I do have some animation software here that I'll eventually tear into as well.
It's amazing what you can do, even with a stock Amiga 1200!
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@XDelusion
Speaking of which, how are you getting on with OctaMED?
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Movies, music, webbrowsing, irc and development are my main uses, plus I like to use amiga os based systems for emulators (much rawer apis, so in my opinion the emulated machines feel more "accurate" as opposed to on windows where you feel the hosts influence). Im a big graphics person too and for low color 2d per pixel graphics Im a fan of amiga software (dpaint/ppaint/brilliance) over options on other machines. 3D graphics, as much as Id like to be able to say otherwise has become the realm of Windows for me these days, due to raw power and better software (some of the old amiga packages are still quite usable though). I dont think this will change until AROS gets something like Blender, and even that will be a compromise,... some things you really get used to speed with and its painful to go back.
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Waste valuable cupboard space. Excellent at doing that and requires no power. 1200 tower does act as an excellent job as a Fan stand in summer, another blocks the cats from going backwards and forwards under the bed, and another acts as door stopper. I have yet to find a practical use for my two 500's and 1 600 as they occupy a cardboard box and the cats enjoy scratching that to pieces.
I did think of using a 1200 as clothes prop for the washing line but I couldn't get it balanced properly so I am thinking of using it as a spade instead. ;)
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Karlos: So far I'm enjoying it, though I do believe I am still restricted to using AIFF format until I get that 030 fixed, or perhaps this 060 from Poland.
It seems that in order to get WAV to play at all correct at the moment is the degrade the quality of the sample till it matches that of an AIFF, thus negating the point.
I hope to have my MIDI adapter for the 2600 soon, then I'll really be having fun.
I do need to have a look at MIDI In for the 600 as well. Considering I have 2 Amiga MIDI boxes and all. :)
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I play games, try to paint, shout at workbench's ugly ass, and soon-to-be, program the bastards.
As soon as I get that nice new amiga....
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Start playing the odd game, then remember I'm just reminiscing...
Also install and tweak ClassicWB - just to pass the time...
I never do anything you'd class as 'constructive' :-)
Mike.
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I do some coding (learning MUI at the moment), trying to plug gaps where I see them in the software market. Still use the A1200 tower 060/Voodoo/all the other gubbins the odd time, but mainly use my A1. Also have an A1200 I use regularly as an MP3 jukebox.
Other than that, the usual stuff, bit of web browsing, emailing, playing music etc. Unfortunately a lot of web browsing and other stuff (video work) needs the PC or Mac :-(
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I occasionally make music with octamed. I have just got a midi interface and audio engineer sample so soon i will making tunes more often. I also spend ages installing software and trying to get it to work.
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Karlos: So far I'm enjoying it, though I do believe I am still restricted to using AIFF format until I get that 030 fixed, or perhaps this 060 from Poland.
It seems that in order to get WAV to play at all correct at the moment is the degrade the quality of the sample till it matches that of an AIFF, thus negating the point.
I think you mean IFF, not AIFF? AIFF is perfectly capable of 16-bit resolution.
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Waste valuable cupboard space. Excellent at doing that and requires no power. 1200 tower does act as an excellent job as a Fan stand in summer, another blocks the cats from going backwards and forwards under the bed, and another acts as door stopper. I have yet to find a practical use for my two 500's and 1 600 as they occupy a cardboard box and the cats enjoy scratching that to pieces.
I did think of using a 1200 as clothes prop for the washing line but I couldn't get it balanced properly so I am thinking of using it as a spade instead. ;)
That's awful :( If you don't use them, why not sell them :)
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4 different things
1) play some games
2) gfx for websites, just basic layout
3) some coding
4) dust collectors
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This is always the question that stops me from snapping up an A3000D or buying and tricking out an A1200 from Amigakit, etc. : what would I do with it once I got there? I love my PC games, and as far as web-browsers go unless someone backports something like Firefox...well, I'm sorry, Ibrowse and Aweb and so on? Not cutting it. If it hadn't been for the stupid, stupid politics and egos behind Amithlon, I/we could be using it, with cross-compiled apps, the whole works. And the future would be much brighter indeed.
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Things I currently do with my Amigas:
Tinker, mod, repair, clean and eventually trade/sell some of the hardware.
Play the occasional game for a few minutes.
Tweak OS configurations for optimum performance.
Read bits of a random vintage Amiga magazine (almost daily).
Am going to start using the Lotto Program on my A1000 to 'win' someday and when I do, I'll proudly tell the world my Amiga 1000 helped! lol
Oh, and even though I may not turn either computer on every day, I'll admit that I usually sneak a glance at the 1000 and 3000 daily. Kind of like sneaking a peek at a hottie you just can't take your eyes off of. :lol:
Things I used to do with 'em:
Sample sounds from various sources
Genlock graphics/titles over video tapes
Write letters and keep databases of my various collections
Surf the web, e-mail and read newsgroups
Things I'd like to do again or learn, but will probably never get around to it:
Paint, edit images
Catalogue my various collections
Ray Tracing
Astronomy via Distant Suns
Play more games and for longer sessions
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I work with graphics using Dpaint, Brilliance, ImageFX, etc. Much work with photos these days.
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I smoke cloves and hold seances while listening to The Cure with my Amigas.
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To attract and mate with dust.
[EDIT] To make clear, mating dust with the Amiga, not me.
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I play modules on my A1200/060.
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Play games, to me the old games I grew up with are still the best!
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not a lot, not enough... the last year really has been a downer, perhaps I need to start selling :/
planning a house move, so all peanuts would come in handy :/
Tom UK
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Some years ago I used my Amiga's for daily tasks as websurfing, email and chat but I got bored with using not up to date browsers and such so nowdays I only have a couple of Amiga's which don't have any fancy stuff as a gfx card and such and only play classic games and watch cool demo's
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well basically everything I do on my pc at work I do at home with my Samflex & OS4.1 Update 2..usually while listening to tunes with TuneNet:) and playing my favourite 68k games like Deluxe Galaga, Cannon Fodder, R-Type, Turrican 2 etc. via glUAE (thanks gain saimo!!)...when I need to load up an AutoCad program I then boot Debian with my Samflex to run QCad nicely
oh & still use my 1200 for the occasional fling with Lightwave and OctaMed Sound Studio & of course games !
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Currently making a train animation with DPaint for a friends YouTube videos.
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Collect dust !
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I use my system for web browsing, email, playing mp3 music files, watching video, some programming with ARexx and some writing with Final Writer 97.
For web browsing, I like to try out new versions of OWB and NetSurf as they are released. I have also used IBrowse and AWeb.
I also play a solitaire card game, Shanghai, and Lore of Conquest. The last two require emulation or classic Amiga.
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redfox
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as they occupy a cardboard box and the cats enjoy scratching that to pieces.
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You should definitely kill that cat...
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You should definitely kill that cat...
Ah.....never thought of that. RSPCA "You said that Dandy told you to kill that Cat", Me "Yes, on Amiga.Org its where the Cat Killers chat." Queue picture of that Cat with Rifle ;)
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demos, games and some digibooster. thats about it really.
and ofcourse, tweaking and configuring is the fun part of amiga ownership, so if that counts... :)
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Porn.
You DO porn with your Amiga? Well, I guess there's a market for everything..
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I write text adventures! (watch me do it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHXT5eMM6nc) :p)
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Mostly I repair my Amigas, reinstall them and watch them break again. :-(
One day I'll get one working well, then I can look at things to actually do with one! :-)
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You DO porn with your Amiga? Well, I guess there's a market for everything..
It sounded amusing at the moment. :)
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At the moment not much :(
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I made this a couple days ago (http://www.unc.edu/~johna/drupal6/)
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I made this a couple days ago (http://www.unc.edu/~johna/drupal6/)
Nice!
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Ah.....never thought of that. RSPCA "You said that Dandy told you to kill that Cat", Me "Yes, on Amiga.Org its where the Cat Killers chat." Queue picture of that Cat with Rifle ;)
Hehe - got that from "Dinner For One (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9105942950207814319#)", where Mr. Winterbottom says to Miss Sophie "Uhhh - I'll kill that cat!" around the end of the sketch...
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Very good!
I made this a couple days ago (http://www.unc.edu/~johna/drupal6/)
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so what do people actually do with their amigas these days?
Whether its a classic machine, a pimped out hybrid beast, a PPC amiga, AROS or just some UAE for a rainy day
Nothing fancy... I usually check out webpages with MorphOS OWB, play videos with MorphOS MPlayer and code a little. With my classics I watch demos and sometimes also code a few lines, from time to time I paint some pixels with DPaint or PPaint. Sometimes I launch a pair of whdload games. I used to like configuring my systems to the max but I don't have much time for that.
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My wife plays Loopz on my A1200 all the time, 200k on level 3.
My A4000 fires up and plays from my Mods and S3M collection with Eagle player while I work on my PeeCee
My top A500 stops the other 3 from getting dusty.
My A2000 sits there quietly under my A4000 wondering why it gets no love.
"To have and to hold" is their main purpose.
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Mostly I repair my Amigas, reinstall them and watch them break again.
I hear ya there. ;)
I use to do that a lot. Got to the point when I figured it'd be best to quit torturing myself with data loss and hardware failure and do something productive. So I bought a Playstation. heh
~A4000D VT/Flyer down in the basement (with all the other Amiga stuff) gets fired up every few days. Mostly tinker with the configuration and software. Finally eliminated the scsi error from halting playback of clips with digital wipes. Managed to make a small commercial TV ad lastyear with the anticipation of doing it again this year.
~A3000 sets next to the VT/Flyer. Trying to get the scsi header on the Warp40 to function so I can install an extra HD to use with the AD516. So far, no go.
~A1200 gets shuffled around on the bench. Needs the battery changed on the Apollo'40. Wanted to get it going with games, but I'm playing the Divorce/Bankrupt level of life right now...
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I made this a couple days ago (http://www.unc.edu/~johna/drupal6/)
That was fun!
I use my Amiga as my main graphics editing platform (ImageFX, Aladdin4d, DPaint, etc.).
Otherwise, for MIDI stuff (Bars & Pipes). There is no better MIDI sequencer.
I have several hardware Amigas that need repair. I'm using a WinUAE setup right now that just functions so smoothly and feels so real that I sometimes forget I'm not working on a "real" Amiga (it's a real Amiga to me and I get a lot done with it).
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- 68030 programming.
- Games.
- Playing 16 bit 28 KHz stereo wavs for the novelty value (sounds pretty good).
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I bought my self an old Amiga 600 "Junebug" last year, in almost fabric new conditions. I couldnt stand not to be able of using and playing on amiga systems no more.
(http://www.3dim.se/3D/datas/users/1-a600running.jpg)
I use this machine with standard settings, an extra disc drive, 6gb of harddrive space and workbench 2.04. Its been really fun to get everything to work propertly and my old games runs just fine too, 15+ year old diskettes, not much but ive got a few left.
Main purpose of my machine is showing friends how amazing the classic commondore amiga really is and give them a bit of understanding towards amiga, then would it be nice to be able of drawing in deluxe paint or making music just for fun. May let my a600 attenting on my schools game party event the 28th this month too. :rolleyes:
Set my current aim on buying a new X1000 when they comes out, wish they wont cost a fortune like back in the days. Sell it cheap now and they might be able of doing a change in history, but guess they cant afford a stunt like that though, better to play it safe.
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I bought my self an old Amiga 600 "Junebug" last year, in almost fabric new conditions. I couldnt stand not to be able of using and playing on amiga systems no more.
(http://www.3dim.se/3D/datas/users/1-a600running.jpg)
I use this machine with standard settings, an extra disc drive, 6gb of harddrive space and workbench 2.04. Its been really fun to get everything to work propertly and my old games runs just fine too, 15+ year old diskettes, not much but ive got a few left.
Main purpose of my machine is showing friends how amazing the classic commondore amiga really is and give them a bit of understanding towards amiga, then would it be nice to be able of drawing in deluxe paint or making music just for fun. May let my a600 attenting on my schools game party event the 28th this month too. :rolleyes:
Set my current aim on buying a new X1000 when they comes out, wish they wont cost a fortune like back in the days. Sell it cheap now and they might be able of doing a change in history, but guess they cant afford a stunt like that though, better to play it safe.
Whats the joystick in that picture called? I had one as a kid and I loved it, plus its a proper two button stick.
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Whats the joystick in that picture called? I had one as a kid and I loved it, plus its a proper two button stick.
That's a Wico Command Control joystick. I have several of these. They're not discrete 2-button joys either. The switch under the stick allows you to switch between base or stick fire buttons. That's it. I did just modify one for use on an Atari 7800 proper though, so it can be done. You need a Sega Genesis cable though if you want to perform the mod. Same thing if you want to turn it into a 2-button Amiga joystick.
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I write text adventures! (watch me do it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHXT5eMM6nc) :p)
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Way cool.
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Way cool.
Yep, that is cool.
You know what, to hell with all this modern crap. I'm firing my PCs out the 'window' right now, yeah!
:rant: :flame:
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When I have a LOT of time to kill, I get on the old A500 and hit the WWW.
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A lot of time.
lol....
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I do pretty much all my normal computer stuff involving an Amiga in some form or another.
Doing homework (to the point that I need an 8GB USB thumb-drive with UAE installed on it so I can print using the computer lab printer, instead of my Canon-bjc-210-US$40/ink cartridge)
For the online part of my homework requiring screenshots, I aquire such using TwinVNC, Cybergrab, and a window positioned strategically enough to show the Workbench GUI. :D
Web browsing (Mainly Ibrowse, though I have an old laptop with Ubuntu Linux, Firefox, and a VNC server so I don't need to relocate for the stuff IB can't hack)
Playing demos/games/etc...
Twisting and contorting standard (and some rather obscure) accessories in ways that would horrify the original manufacturer just so I can use it on the Amiga. (Almost every I/O connecter on the back off my 1200T contains some sort of adapter before going to something useful, at least one of which is a horribly constructed wire-crimped mess of a cross-over cable held together with electric tape)
Plugging random USB stuff into my SubWay just to see if it works.
Other various tinkering.
Writing code (currently for PalmOS to Amiga conversion stuff, a few other things I have on the back-burner)
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What do I do with my Amiga? Well, pretty much everything except for syncing my MP3 player (no USB yet :( ), and burning DVD's, Oh, and a few websites that refuse to work with either Aweb APL or IBrowse. The fact is, 99% of my creative work is still done on Amigas. Specifically:
Weirdest use of my Amiga: Using my Arctec scanner and ImageF/X to make 'new' cylinder sleeves for my 1909 Edison cylinder phonograph :)
My dad and I both use Amigas to print decals for our model train layouts, aircraft, etc. Labels and pictures for videotapes and DVD's. My dad used his old A600 with DCTV and an Epson Stylus Photo to scan and re-print 'restored' photos. For me, of course, a good bit of 2D painting w/ DPaint 4 + 5, PPaint, Brilliance, DigiPaint3.... and lots of 3D rendering....Lightwave5, Yeah! No matter how slow it is on a 'lowly' '060 Amiga, I am just used to my old Amiga setup...besides, my Amiga has the expensive printer, and the 20" Toshiba monitor....:hammer:
Various printing tasks for my job....'cause the Brother Fax/printer and PC there fails about every 45mins. :laughing:
For 'common' computer tasks.... you might catch me doing ordinary word processing (Wordworth7) or updating phone numbers, contacts, etc. (Datastore)
I DO NOT play games on my Amiga....when I'm asleep... LOL....
Maybe a little Apidya before bed.....
Oh, and my A1200 is the official software and E-Mail storage for our house. Ya know, 'Just in case'
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Mainly coding, then listening to web radios via Tunenet, browsing, email, chat on IRC... the usual stuff.
Varthall